tl19540217-000 "State Teachers College Welcomes NSA Delegates to 2nd Annual Mason-Dixon Leadership Program r17. PIT Dean Weigand Main Speaker 1111.11 TOWER 5,4 LIGHT at NSA Regional Convention Dean George Weigand, Assistant Dean of Students at Maryland University, will be the main speaker at the National Student Association Leadership Conference to be held at Tow-son this weekend. Dean Weigand earned his B.A. degree in psychology at Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. at Maryland Uni-versity. February 17, 1954 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. Vol. 7, No. 12 Mary Ann Sadler Towson Representative to NSA Hazel Woodward Advisor to SGA James Addy President of SGA College Host to Annual Leadership Conference This weekend, Feb. 19, 20, 21, Towson State Teachers Col-lege will be hosts to the second Annual Leadership Training Conference of the Mason-Dixon Conference of the Mason-Dixon 'legion of the National Student Association. Mary Ann Sadler, Towson NSA representative is handling ine details for the conference. Members of the Student Government Association execu: t. Council have been helping Mary Ann prepare for this even t Ted Danish, Mona Lou Evans, Patti Losco, George Hohl, Mary jalle Mack, and Dick McCall are 441�ng those who helped plan the affair. Tony Marchione and Ken Wray made the arrangements for the beY5 planning to stay in the boys' (113/111itories. Sue Cunningham, iche Crowther, and Delores Dear- "" planned for the facilities in he girls' dorms. Serving in an advisory capacity, re Miss Hazel Woodward and Dr. chvard Neulander, advisor and aciate advisor, respectively, of he SGA. l'aeulty members helping with he conference meetings are Miss ather lite Kahl, Dr. Frances Clark, 1'. Prank Mann, Dr. William rtely, and Dr. Earl Willis. le len Wilson is heading the sec- Larial department which will eeN the remarks of the discus- 1�11 groups. 1:11 hi5 affair is sponsored by the 1��t-Llixon Region of the No- :11.41 Students Association and is aed for the purpose of in-eting campus leaders in the h �s�PhY of leadership and to a ow these leaders how best to pre-hie2 eaMPus leadership program Ns' Will be of benefit to the stu-viclualleaders on each of their in- c ttA hild'r""'son students are urged to ttie and to converse with the o (11�-lit3 cif other colleges. There is uCgistration fee for Towsonites e41441' students must pay for all 4 eaten in the dining hall. arnpuses. Towson Releases New Pamphlet ""Welcome to Towson"" a new pamphlet on State Teachers College will be released this weekend. This booklet has been prepared under the supervision of Dr. Re-becca Tonsil, Dean of Admissions. On the front page will appear a new picture of the tower clock. One page will cover buildings on the campus with pictures and a listing of all the buildings. Another page is ""the college"" explaining the Teachers and Junior College divi-sions. Extra-curricula activities are also given. A page is devoted to the college community, giving the location and describing the section as well. Bal-timore is also included with in-formation of the port and distance from other cities such as Annapolis and Washington. A new map of the campus may be found in the booklet which was drawn by a commercial artist. Jerry Moylan, a junior at STC, helped to prepare the map for the Baltimore artist. REGIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE AT TOWSON FEBRUARY 19, 20, 21st Five Students from Each School as Official Representatives Room and board for each student $2.85 Registration fee for member schools 1.50 Total fee for students of member schools $4.35 Registration fee for non-member schools $1.50 Total fee for students of non-member schools..$5.35 Meeting Held in Instanbul Representatives of the United States National Student Associa-tion have just returned from Istan-bul, Turkey, where they attended the Fourth International Student Conference. This meeting, the larg-est and most representative of its type ever to be assembled, featured the participation of over forty Na-tional Unions of Students from all areas of the globe. First Conference The First Iinternational Student Conference was convoked in Decem-ber 1950 after it had become appar-ent that cooperation with the In-ternational Union of Students, an organization which many have termed ""the student section of the Cominform"", was impossible be-cause of its non-representative na-ture and partisan political orienta-tion. At the Second International Student Conference, held the fol-lowing year in Edinburgh, a Co-ordinating Secretariat was estab-lished to serve as the administra-tive bridge between Conferences. Since its inception four years ago, the International Student Con-ference has grown greatly both in size and scope of activity, and now stands as the only medium through which students, organized in Na-tional Unions, can meet for the pur-pose of cooperation on an equal and non-partisan basis. The annual Con-ference operates upon a system of ""delegated responsibilities"" where-by National Unions agree to under-take the responsibility for various practical programs. The Istanbul meeting initially was subdivided into four program commissions to consider the reports of National Unions on their in-dividual progress and to plan future projects. Included among the problems discussed were those of student travel, study abroad, stu-dent sport, seminars and camps, student influence of university ad-ministrations, scholarships, student health, student economic and social affairs, and an international stu-dent identity card enabling holders (Continued on pg. 2, col. 3) NSA History United States National Student Association, which is now holding a regional session at Towson, is a confederation of student govern-ments. NSA represents college student bodies through their own demo-cratically elected student govern-ments. It was created to serve the long-existing need for a representa-tive intercollegiate organization designed to serve the American stu-dent community, and to promote student's interests and welfare. Started 1946 It was started in 1946 when 25 American students, returning from the World Student Congress in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conceived the idea of forming a United States National Student Association. At that request, congress became aware of the fact that the United States stood alone without a repre-sentative national student group. Not until September 1947 was the constitution nor the mapped program for the newly-formed United States National Student Association, established by a repre-sentation of over 350 colleges. Membership Any college, university, junior college, normal school or technical school can join the National Stu-dent Association upon ratification of its constitution and payment of annual dues. NSA's membership in-cludes more than 300 institutions. NSA's aims and purposes are to maintain academic freedom, stimu- (Continued on pg. 2, col. 1) He is officially a councilor for vo-cational guidance. His specialty along this line is motivation of students for academic work. He does not base everything on apti-tude tests. He works on the angles of how can students be motivated for their work. He knows that many times students are low on aptitude tests and high scholastic-ally because they have a proper motivation. Dr. Weigand is very interested in students who are eternally in mischief; what makes them do this; why do these things happen to them? Dean Weigand will not stay on campus because he lives in Tow-son; however, he will be present at all meals to meet students inform-ally and really get to know the stu-dents and their problems. He is the advisor for the Big Sisters League at Maryland which is similar to the Freshman Ad-visory Council on the � Towson campus. Dean Weigand is married and has four young boys. He served five years in the infantry during World War II. Three and one-half years of this time was spent in the Pacific Theatre. Saturday evening Dr. Earle T. Hawkins, president of the College and James Addy, president of the Student Government Association will welcome all of the delegates to the Towson College. Friday Evening 7-9 P.M. 9:00 P.M. Saturday 10:00-12:00 Registration 12:15-12:45 Lunch 1:00-3:00 TENTATIVE WEEK END SCHEDULE Briefing session for workshop leaders Basketball Game�Lynchburg FIRST SESSION Introductions ""Philosophy of Leadership"" Lecture�Questions Workshop Discussions 3:00-3:30 Report of Workshops 3:30-5:00 ""Content of Leadership"" Lecture�Questions Workshop Discussions 5:00-6:00 COFFE AND SOCIAL HOUR 6:00-7:30 Dinner and Welcoming Talks 7:30-8:00 Report of Workshops 8:00-9:30 ""Tecniques and Aids in Leadership Training"" Lecture�Questions Workshop Discussions 9:30-10:00 Tennessee Williams Play given by college dramatic group Social Hour in Student Center 10:00- Sunday 9:00 1:00 2:00 Breakfast Dinner Assembly Meeting Evaluation Summing up of all workshops and improtant business NSA Speakers Parting Remarks 4:00 END OF MEETING "